Skiing: Big incentives to hit the snow

12:12 AM,
Jan. 10, 2013

Written by

Julia Carlson Rosenblatt
Poughkeepsie Journal columnist

I looked out the window early in the morning last week and saw a good winter sports day. The sky was blue. The outdoor thermometer hovered near the zero point. I knew if I were to spend much time outdoors in business clothes, I was in for a bad day. But if I dressed in ski clothes, or something equivalently warm, I could breath the crisp air, hear the snow squeak under my feet, and feel great. It made me think of the old Norwegian saying, "There is no bad weather, only bad clothing."

It also brought to mind a new slogan, that of January's "Learn to Ski or Snowboard Month" (LSSM), "Humans were never meant to ...